Anyone else with speech delayed LO

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sarahchaarli wrote:

Anyone else's LO also have a speech delay? DD has been in ECI speech therapy since February. She has 4 words that she can say, and only two of them are even pronounced correctly. Otherwise, she babbles constantly. She has made very little, if any, progress, although she has learned a number of signs and finally enjoys watching signing time and learning signs that way. She has no other delays and understands everything we say. It's so frustrating to see her peers pass her by in development and to feel like we're in a holding pattern until she is old enough for a diagnosis. It's also sad to see her struggle to talk or be understood.

Yes, my little guy has numerous delays, including a severe speech delay. He has no "real" words though he does say "uh" for up and "oo" for his pooh lovey. He understands a lot and can follow some direction, and finds his own ways to get my attention or express what he wants (such as pulling up at his highchair then calling out when he's ready to "eat"). It is incredibly frustrating and hurts my heart sometimes when I see babies who surpass him in speech (especially his cousin who is only 10 months old and has surpassed him in speech and eating, and is not far behind in gross motor). I've learned by now that comparing is just something you have to try and stop yourself from doing, hard as it is. Instead focus on the accomplishments your own little one makes and be excited for those. It's okay to be sad sometimes but I try to give myself a few minutes and then move on. Hang in there!!

My son has a speech delay and participates in therapy. We've progressed a ton and should be within the normal range by years end. I just wanted to say that I feel for you both. My son's situation is mild but it's still frustrating not knowing what he wants and watching him struggle sometimes when his peers are more and more articulate. Best of luck to you both!

My son has a speech delay as well. At his two year check up, he had many single words and signs, but was not stringing together any two word phrases at all. We went through ECI evaluation this spring, and discovered what we were already pretty sure of: his receptive language is great (he understands everything we say and ask) but his expressive is very low average. I completely feel your frustration-it's so hard to sit in a holding pattern when I know it's hard for him to get his point across to strangers/other kiddos. I try to remind myself that this won't be forever, and that 'back in the day', my now healthy happy engineer sister didn't speak AT ALL until she was three.

I'm in the same boat. My son has about 30-40 words he uses consistently and has a few short two word phrases. He's been in therapy since last August when he only had about 5 words at 18 months. In the last like two months is where we've finally started to see some progress. It's so frustrating to see other kids speak and yours just has a few words and the rest sounds like some foreign dialect. And on top of that I keep reading that at 2 1/2 they should be able to say about 300 words. Feels like that's so far away from happening and It gets me so emotional :( I just hope he catches up. Let's hope we see some real progress with our kiddos soon. Best of luck mommies!

My son has made tons of progress and is now pretty much caught up. It was purely a delay, nothing to diagnose or deal with long term. We are very fortunate that a little help from a great therapist has sped up the process.

@vas13 My kiddo has been in speech therapy since 18 months. He was formally diagnosed with apraxia 2 months ago. It is a motor planning speech disorder where the brain has difficulty communicating with the mouth to make the correct movements for speech. As a result of his apraxia he does have a severe expressive language delay, meaning he doesn't have the number of words he should for his age.

My son was also diagnosed with childhood apraxia. He has been in speech since 18 months. He went from 5 words to over 100 but he is having trouble stringing words together. He just started this past month with 2 to 3 word sentences. Some of the words he struggles with.

I think he was too young to be diagnosed as they say only after but spl are giving him therapy as if he has apraxia.

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I worry about the future and how his peers have surpassed him in verbal expression.

My son has been in therapy since he was 1 (over 18 months now). I remember thinking it wasn't working and he wasn't improving. then all these words and phrases came in at once. I know how frustrating it can be but just keep it up - sometimes it just takes time.

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